How do you enable auditing in Dataverse?

Required tools

• Environment Administrator — Auditing is enabled at the environment level.

Turn on

1. 1.Enable auditing for the environment

   This is the master switch. Without it, nothing happens even if individual tables are marked for revision.

2. 2.Choose tables and fields carefully

   Don't enable everything. Choose what matters: ownership, status, amount, and personal data. Enabling everything uses a lot of storage and creates a log that no one can navigate.

3. 3.Set the retention period

   Audit data can be retained for a specific number of years or until it is manually deleted. Set a retention period that meets your requirements, rather than allowing it to grow indefinitely.

Use it

1. 4.Check that logging works as expected

   Make a change and find it again in the log. Ten minutes here will reveal whether the field selection actually worked.

2. 5.Know where to find it

   The revision history is available for each entry and collectively under the environment settings. Show both to those who will use it.

3. 6.Monitor storage usage

   Audit data counts toward the storage quota and can grow quickly. Check usage after one month and adjust the scope.